The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) is investigating the City of Cape Town’s electricity tariff increase and its tariff structure. The increases were brought into effect in July 1. “Nersa received numerous complaints regarding the City of Cape Town’s electricity tariffs and is looking into the matter,” said[…]
Since the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill was introduced to Parliament last week, the debate about the plan which promises to fundamentally change healthcare in South Africa has heated up. While the arguments for NHI tend to focus on the massive inequalities in the current access South Africans have to[…]
Wife killer Jason Rohde is pinning his hopes of being released on bail on the supreme court of appeal (SCA). On Friday, the high court in Cape Town dismissed his application for leave to appeal against its decision not to grant him bail. After a brief hearing, judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe[…]
The City of Cape Town says it’s doing all it can to address the plight of people living in informal settlements. This follows complaints from residents at Burundi in Mfuleni of flooded and mud-ridden streets after heavy rains. The number of informal settlements increases every year and living conditions are[…]
The South African Policing Union (Sapu) said deploying SANDF in the Western Cape was never a good idea and that policing needed to be relooked in the province. The army was deployed a month ago to provide support to police. However, there have still been a number of gang-related murders.[…]
Amid SA National Defence Force and police operations in Cape Town’s crime hotspots, some of the city’s unsung heroines in neighbourhood watches (NHW) and community policing forums (CPF) were treated to a high tea for the work they do in dangerous conditions. “As I travel about the Western Cape and[…]
The Hanover Park community policing forum wants government to relook at its safety plan in gang-ridden areas. The call comes after a young man was shot and killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting. The CPF’s Ebrahim Abrahams said the victims were not gangsters. Abrahams said despite the army’s[…]
Metro Police officers have confiscated drugs to the value of about R38,000 and cash at a house in Athlone. The unit teamed up with the South African Police Service for an operation on Thursday. While driving to a house for the raid, officers followed a vehicle that stopped at the[…]
Two of the three men accused of the murder of Meghan Cremer ditched their bail hearing applications in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Two of the three did not apply for bail The suspects namely: Jeremy Sias, Charles Daniels and Shiraaz Jaftha were arrested soon after the body of[…]
Another GOOD Party leader, treasurer-general Masego Kwenamore, has tendered her resignation saying she has been kept in the dark about party finances. Kwenamore, based in the North West, said she “has had enough and felt used” by the party that was formed a couple of months before the 8 May general elections.[…]
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